(photo credit: STRINGER/ REUTERS) The Wagner private mercenary company's mutiny in Russia over the weekend was more of a revolt against the Defense Ministry rather than President Vladimir Putin ...

Russian government troops withdrew from the streets of Moscow on Sunday and the rebellious mercenary soldiers who had occupied other cities were gone, but the short-lived revolt has weakened ...

recruiting thousands to his Wagner mercenary group, especially from Russian jails. He has long been in a public feud with the military chiefs running the war, but that turned into open revolt as ...

Prigozhin has defended his actions, insisting the revolt was not meant to be a challenge to the leadership of Mr Putin. Rather, he described it as a bid to save his mercenary group from being ...

A brief and ultimately aborted attempt at a coup d'état by Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin represented the most significant affront to President Vladimir Putin's 23-year reign.

The greatest challenge to Russian President Vladimir Putin in his more than two decades in power fizzled out after the rebellious mercenary commander ... The brief revolt, though, exposed ...